“The World Health Organization offered, offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them.”
Joe Biden
Former Vice President of the United States. During the Democratic debate in Washington, D.C.. Claim dated 15 Mar 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Joe Biden (Former Vice President of the United States) made this claim around 15 March 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 March 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/15/se.03.html
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